Monday, August 9, 2010

If The World Is Flat... ?

Hey Tom Friedman, if you think "The World Is Flat" then how can the container ship MSC Chitra list so badly as to dump most of it's international commerce into the Arabian Sea? (link here). In a "flat world" ships wouldn't tilt or capsize. Ahhh, the joys of globalization! Maybe some more black turtle necks and jackets that Friedman loves to wear on Sunday morning shows (to conceal his burgeoning physical form) were in some of the dumped containers?

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Create your own visitor map!Gray Background tones, because despite many peoples' view that Everything in the world is simply Black or White, (all fundamentalists, many engineers, few scientists, lots of confused persons, many digital thinkers) there's all sorts of shades of gray, everywhere you look. Good wine doesn't have to be expensive. Conservatives do not have to be selfish and insane wing-nuts. Liberals do not have to have socialist-abortion-producing-crystal-worshiping-gay-marriages. Racists, xenophobes, fundamentalists, and willful ignorance suck. The Earth is Much Older than 6000 years. Don't be afraid of Science, embrace it. The web's a great tool. ..in the humble perspective of this INTJ alpha male.